[douche]

Not leaving a footprint? I remember when this was on the local news - he had a helluva mess in the hobo camp he was living in. It's also not exactly a big secret that he was in the area stealing shit all those years - people knew, and some of them left stuff out for him.

[et-al]

A literal footprint: "The first snow usually came in November. Chris was always fearful about leaving a single boot print anywhere, which is impossible to avoid in a blanket of snow. And so for the next six months, until the spring thaw in April, Chris rarely strayed from his clearing in the woods."